Posts Tagged ‘SaaS’

Hope or Hype: Data in the Cloud

My colleague, Nilofer Merchant, just back from FOO Camp this past weekend, reports the underlying current in discussions involved data in the cloud and how valuable it will be. I’m on the record as a believer in cloud data, but maybe see it happening in a different way. Conventional wisdom holds that this is a [...]

New products or markets often require new business models

Many people think choosing a winning business model means selecting from a list of “proven” or “emerging” models such as “SaaS,” “Open Source,” or “Traditional.” A business model is much more than the way you collect money from customers, it also drives development, marketing, sales, deployment, support, accounting and all the other functions I forgot [...]